COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PERSONAL INJURY COMPENSATION SYSTEMS IN NEW YORK (USA) AND UZBEKISTAN
Abstract
This article provides a comparative analysis of personal injury compensation systems in New York (USA) and Uzbekistan, focusing on the conceptual bases, procedural mechanisms, and practical outcomes of damage assessment. While New York represents a mature common law model that relies on case law, jury trials, and extensive reliance on economic and non-economic damage calculations, Uzbekistan reflects a civil law–based, codified approach with a more constrained judicial discretion and limited recognition of intangible harms. The study identifies fundamental divergences in the legal treatment of pain and suffering, loss of earning capacity, and liability thresholds, and examines the implications of these differences on access to justice, predictability of awards, and deterrence functions of tort law. Methodologically, the article employs doctrinal comparison supported by analysis of landmark court decisions from New York and statutory practice in Uzbekistan. The findings suggest that systemic design choices—not only socio-economic context—shape the magnitude and rationale of compensation, producing distinct normative and policy consequences for similarly situated victims.
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